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This week in Nursery we continued working on our 5 senses unit and looked at Hearing. The children played with lots of quiet and loud toys and made lots of noise!!

We got to play lots of instruments. The guitar, the harmonica, the tin whistle (similar to a recorder), a violin and a ukulele. The children really loved trying the different instruments and listening to the different sounds.

The children made music shakers out of cans and rice. They each decorated them with coloured paper and lots of sparkle! We practiced shaking them softly to make a quiet sound and shaking them a lot to make a loud sound. The also shook them along to the guitar to help keep the beat!

This week in Nursery we started our new unit: Boxes! Children love boxes and find so many different ways to use them. We’ve all seen kids who ignore a new toy and go play with the box instead and we’re going to try use their amazing imaginations to explore the different shapes, sizes and uses of boxes. Throughout this unit, we will use boxes to develop and strengthen our problem solving, prediction making, and investigative skills.

The children painted beautiful pictures using twigs, pine cones and chestnuts instead of paintbrushes. We mixed some objects with play dough and pretended to make birthday cakes with play dough and twigs!

We made our happy, sad, angry or sad faces on paper and added leaves for hair. And we made lovely decorations for out classroom windows using sticky paper and twigs, leaves, and a mixture of yellow and orange crepe paper.

We really enjoyed celebrating the beautiful colours of this time of year in our classroom!

We’re nearly at the end of our “All About Me” Unit. We’ve had a great time talking about our bodies, our families and our feelings. The children made life sized versions of themselves which we have hung on the walls. We made some family portraits together and talked about how all our families are similar and different. The children loved making happy, sad, angry, scared and silly faces when we talked about our feelings!!

This week we made Feelings Faces with the kids using Salt Dough. We mixed the dough together and then the kids added facial features. They told the teacher all about their little character and how they were feeling.

Next week we’ll be incorporating Autumn into the end of our Unit. We’ll be making lots of different arts and crafts combining all we’ve learned within the unit with Autumn objects, such as leaves and twigs.